Painting Pictures Is Not A Normal Job
Like everyone else, at a certain point, several hours in, you begin to wonder if doing your job is insane. And, like everyone else, the first evidence that it’s not is that you get paid for it.
When you’re a professional artist, however, the thought process doesn’t stop there. The fact is, doing enough to simply get paid [...]
Up and coming story writer Seth Fried made this after hearing we’ll be publishing a story of his in the Spring.
Expect more of this kind of thing from us in the future. Maybe even audio samples from “Bad Dudes” or “RBI:Baseball.”
Q&A: MATTHEA HARVEY
Parents: You know that 10,000th time you read your kid Go, Dog. Go! as your unfinished copy of that Anne Carson collection you really wanted to read sat on the coffee table and served as nothing but a sippy-cup coaster and a reminder of all the great writers you no longer had the time to [...]
Curtis White: A Good Without Light
Curtis White’s intelligence, colored by righteous indignation, is a slippery and protean thing. He’s tackled Liberalism and contemporary Art Culture and in his newest book, The Barbaric Heart, he examines the hidden ills of the environmental movement. We were fortunate enough to publish an excerpt of it in the “Dread” half of Issue #41, called [...]
CORY DOCTOROW: RADICAL PRESENTISM
Tin House #41 should be hitting your mailboxes or newsstand any day now. The dual theme is Hope/Dread (our designer, the fabulous Janet Parker, created stunning covers for each). In the dread corner, look for Nick Cave, Ander Monson, Alex Lemon, Matthea Harvey, and other doomsayers. Flying the colors of hope, we have Karen Russell, Abigail Thomas, Mahmoud Darwish, [...]
An Essay in Criticism: Virginia Woolf on Hemingway
An Excerpt from our new anthology, THE STORY ABOUT THE STORY, which hits bookshelves today.
Human credulity is indeed wonderful. There may be good reasons for believing in a King or a Judge or a Lord Mayor. When we see them go sweeping by in their robes and their wigs, with their heralds and their outriders, our [...]
